Yes I appreciate that, and also see the parallels with Conceptualism
and the artwork as a kind of mental entity -work that 'live[s] in
your head' to borrow the title of the survey show of British
Conceptual Art at Whitechapel Gallery in London some years ago.
I was wondering more recently. It seems that global communications
systems have plenty to offer in this regard, and have done already
more generally. But as 'permanent' public artworks?
bw
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On 17 Jul 2006, at 17:15, Simon Biggs wrote:
> I think there have been a number of such works. Some are
> technologically
> based and others are systems based and thus less determined by the
> technology they use. Here we could include examples such as Sol Le
> Witt, Art
> and Language, Steve Willetts, many examples of graffiti art, certain
> performance works by Trisha Brown and others associated with American
> structural performance art and choreography, etc. We are coming
> back to that
> old proposition "the open work of art".
>
> Best
>
> Simon
>
>
> On 17.07.06 16:58, "Jon Thomson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>> Perhaps we have to accept that, as with live media such as music,
>>> media
>>> artworks are always changing and evolving and in this sense whilst
>>> a work
>>> can be technically permanent it will always be different.
>>
>> This could tie in with what Patrick suggests as a permanent work
>> being flexible enough for a 'body of work' rather than a 'timeline'
>> Has this been done before, where an artist builds a permanent public
>> form that then changes significantly over some years? I bet it has.
>>
>> In a way, Jaap de Jong's, 'Speakers Corner' at Huddersfield Media
>> Centre offered something similar (although not the same), where he
>> designed a message board system with back end software for other
>> artists to play with, although interestingly this is a system which
>> seems interestingly dated now, in our society of the up to the minute
>> updates, rss feeds and the like.
>>
>> bw
>> jon
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